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Site Reliability Engineer

Filevine is a cloud-based legal technology company providing case management, document management, and automation tools for law firms and legal departments. [1, 4, 30] It aims to simplify and elevate complex legal work. [5, 19]

Filevine

Employee count: 501-1000

United States only
Filevine is forging the future of legal work with cloud-based workflow tools. We have a reputation for intuitive, streamlined technology that helps professionals manage their organization and serve their clients better. We’re also known for our team of extraordinary and passionate professionals who love working together to help organizations thrive. Our success has catapulted Filevine to the forefront of our field—we are ranked as one of the most innovative and fastest-growing technology companies in the country by both Deloitte and Inc.

Our Mission

Filevine is building the seamless intersection between legal and business by creating a world- class platform to help professionals scale.
This role reports directly to the Director of Reliability
Why Are We Hiring
Being a professional is hard. Not only do you need to be an expert in your field but you then need to worry about how you communicate, manage your time, store and share information, keep your data secure, make your tooling reliable, and a million other details. Filevine dreams of a day when all of these details are taken care of so that professionals can get back to focusing on what they love.
We are building our team because we recognize that to make good on that dream we need the help of amazingly talented people like you.
About the Team and Job
To achieve the dream of allowing professionals to focus on what they love Filevine products need key features. They need to be reliable, scalable, performant, cost effective, secure and they need to have a way to recover in the event of a disaster.
The Reliability team is responsible for thinking through these problems and engineering solutions to them. We hire excellent engineers who apply software engineering to these problems to create autonomous systems that take care of these details for us. We use the principle of continuous improvement to make each iteration of these autonomous systems better than the last.
The state of our autonomous systems are nascent with the foundational pieces either recently having been completed or currently under development.
As a Site Reliability Engineer you will be embedded with a cross functional team who has key responsibilities for certain portions of our systems. Over the course of the first year you will gain the valuable context needed to be truly effective and move at speed in the Filevine environment. During your successive years you will be given specific mission critical objectives that help build out and improve our autonomous systems and simultaneously build out your personal brand as an exceptional engineer who has built and maintained amazing systems that can grow to internet scale.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Curiosity, a willingness to learn, a passion to continually improve, and unbridled enthusiasm to make things better everyday without the need to be directed to do so
  • Proficiency in all of the skills expected of our SRE II's
  • Experience with Python, Bash, Powershell and other SRE-type technologies
  • A bachelors degree in computer science, information systems, a related field; comparable certifications; or equivalent direct work experience
  • A minimum of 8 years of experience in hands on technical roles
  • A minimum of 2 years of Site Reliability Engineering experience
  • Experience building autonomous systems that manage software operational details without human intervention

Preferred Qualifications

  • M.S. in computer science, information systems, a related field; comparable certifications; or equivalent direct work experience
  • 2-6 years of Site Reliability Engineering Experience
  • Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining internet scale applications
  • Experience incorporating Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning into internet scale applications

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

  • Provide leadership, mentoring, and excellent judgement by being responsible for:
  • Developing autonomous systems that manage the details necessary to build, deploy, test, and operate all Filevine Inc. products
  • Being the voice of Reliability on your team throughout the SDLC
  • Collecting, monitoring, aggregating, dashboarding, and alerting on software and server events
  • Improving the CI/CD pipeline
  • Developing playbooks, tools, and scripts to streamline processes and shorten problem resolution time
  • Identifying and fixing gaps in the availability of systems
  • Improving and defending the security of software and systems
  • Documenting and diagramming processes, procedures, and best practices
  • Finding, learning, improving, or creating new tools that are reliable, usable, and helpful to enable other engineers to perform their work more efficiently
  • Work within assigned team to complete duties as assigned, while mentoring, training, and reviewing more junior engineers.
  • Work either individually or in conjunction with other engineers to complete assignments
  • Be part of an on-call rotation with other team members to provide 24/7/365 production reliability support
  • Be part of an on-call rotation with other team members to provide escalated emergency support for the services your team owns
  • Communicate frequently, clearly, and effectively with various technical and management audiences

Cool Company Perks

  • Competitive compensation and benefits package
  • Opportunity to learn from a dedicated leadership team
  • Dynamic, rapidly growing company, focused on helping organizations thrive
  • 100% remote work environment for engineers
  • Hackathons for innovation

Cool Company Benefits:

- A dynamic, rapidly growing company, focused on helping organizations thrive
- Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance (for full-time employees)
- Competitive Fair Pay
- Maternity paternity leave (for full-time employees)
- Short long-term disability
- Opportunity to learn from a dedicated leadership team
- Centrally located open office building in Sugar House (onsite employees)
- Top-of-the-line company swag

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About Filevine

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Filevine's journey began from the real-world frustrations of practicing attorneys Ryan Anderson and Nate Morris. As lawyers managing a growing firm, they found existing software solutions inadequate for the pace and complexity of their work. This firsthand experience of the legal profession's daily grind – the mountains of paperwork, the critical deadlines, and the constant need for seamless client communication – fueled a desire for something better. They envisioned a system that could truly support the demanding nature of legal practice, a stark contrast to the clunky, outdated tools they were forced to use. This wasn't just about incremental improvement; it was about fundamentally rethinking how legal work could be managed with modern technology.

The turning point came when Anderson and Morris connected with Jim Blake, described as a 'one-of-a-kind, truly brilliant engineer'. [1, 12] This meeting of legal insight and engineering prowess was the catalyst for Filevine's creation. [1, 12] Together, they embarked on a mission to build a platform designed by lawyers, for lawyers. Starting with a focus on personal injury firms, Filevine was initially conceived as a task management software. However, the ambition was always larger. The team recognized that legal professionals across all practice areas were underserved by existing technology and were hungry for tools that could genuinely make their lives easier and their work more effective. This understanding, coupled with a commitment to listening to customer needs, drove Filevine's evolution. The company expanded its offerings to cover the entire legal matter lifecycle, acquiring companies like Lead Docket and Outlaw to enhance its capabilities in lead intake and document management. [1, 2] From its early days, operating on a shoestring budget, Filevine has grown into a comprehensive legal operating system, now valued at over a billion dollars and serving thousands of law firms and legal departments. [1, 2, 19] The platform now incorporates advanced AI features, demonstrating a continued commitment to innovation and to transforming the way legal work gets done. [1, 19]

Employee benefits

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Life Insurance

Offers life insurance.

Performance Bonus

Offers performance-based bonuses.

Health Insurance

Provides health insurance coverage.

401(K)

Offers a 401(K) plan for retirement savings.

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